Ball-bearing.



No. 332,427; PATENTEDOOT. 2, 1906.

. A. T. SISSON.

BALL BEARING.

APPLICATION TILED NOV. 24, 1905.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT r. sissoN,

MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO w.

RHQDE ISLAND.

OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE lSLANI). ASSIGNOR, BY PENN MAIHER. OF PROVIDEN 3E,

BALL-BEARING.

' Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 2, 1906.

Application filed November 24,1905. Serial No. 288.928.

To (tZZ whmn it ntn/y concern.-

Beit known that I, ALBERT T. Srssox, of Providence,'in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain quiring change of any. of the other parts and to secure economy of manufacture and use.

In the accompanying drawings, representing'thepreferred embodiment of the present invention, Figure 1 represents an axial sectional view of the bearing. Fig. 2 represents an end elevation thereof,'parts being broken away to show the interior in section.

e same reference characters indicate the same parts inboth figures.

' The bearing comprises, essentially, a sleeve 1, adapted to be fitted uponashaft a pair of rings 2 3, mounted externally upon the sleeve and formed with a'ball-groove between them;

a series of balls 4; an external annulus or collar 5, having a ballereceiving groove, and adjusting and locking nuts 6 7 for positioning the rings. The sleeve 1 is made cylindrical upon its outer face, and the rings 2- 3 are 'round with a truly cylindrical bore, so as to ht accurately upon the sleeve. Each of the rings has a groove or keyway 8, into which project he s in the form of pins 9, mounted upon the s eeve. These pins permit the rings to slide axially upon the sleeve, butprevent anyrelative rotary movement. A flange 10 on the end of sleeve 1 provides a shoulder against which the ring 2 abuts and by which the-rin is prevented from slipping off the end of the s eeve. On the other end of the sleeve the nuts 6 and 7 are mounted and bear against the other ring 3 for holding and ositioning the latter upon the sleeve and a justing its distance from the ring 2. It will be seen that the rings 2 and 3 have each a beveled or inclinedside 11 12, respectively, and that these sides are adjacent each other, forming the groove in which the antifriction-balls are held and are caused to run, while the exterior annulus has an internal groove 13 complementary to and surrounding the first-named groove. into which also the balls 4 project. The annulus 5 retains the balls in engagement with the bearing-rings and forms the part of the hearing which is complen'iental to that consisting of the rings 2 3 and sleeve 1. By adjustment of the bearing-ring 3 through manipulation of the adjusting-nuts the degree of pressure or of looseness of theballs in the grooves may be varied, there being a sufiioient space left between the rings 2 and 3 to permit the amount of adjustment necessary to bring the balls into firm engagement with the sides of b0 th the grooves.

The sleeve 1 is made of ordinary soft machinery-steel, while .the rings 2 3, as also the collar 5, are made of crucible or tool steel andsuitably hardened to resist wear. The two bearing-rings are preferably identical in form, being thereby interchangeable, and they are readily removable from the sleeve, so that in case one or the other of them becomes worn the w0rn0ut member may be removed andanother similar one substituted without requiring change of any of the other parts, and particularly without requiring. in any event the substitution'of a new sleeve 1.

By constructingv the sleeve 1 of soft steel the sleeves may be made of standard sizes and of internal diameters to fit the smallest shafts for which they are res ectively designed and maybe subsequent y reamed or bored out to fit larger shafts within reasonable limits. Thus it is not necessary to make an entirely new sleeve or turn down the shaft in case one of the standard bearings does not exactly fit a shaft to which it is to be applied, as is necessary in cases where hardened-steel sleeves having ball-bearing surfaces are used, and thus the bearings may be made in quantities all of the same size, and consequently at less cost than where special sizes are required, and sold at a smaller figure. By reason, also, of having each of the bearing-rings detachable from the sleeve it is not necessary when one of them wears out to discard the whole sleeve and substitute a new one, as is the case when one of the bearingsurfaces is formed directly upon the sleeve. Thus there is economy in maintenance of the bearing.

In order to prevent the adjusting of locknuts 7 from jarring loose, I provide a locking member consisting of a ductile metal disk or washer 14, interposed between the two nuts and having its periphery notched at intervals to provide between the notches tongues 15. The nuts are also provided with peripheral notches 16 17, respectively, into which the tongues may be bent, while the disk has a tongue 19 in its bore, projecting into a, slot or keyway 20 of the sleeve to hold the disk from rotating. As long as the tongues occupy these notches it is evident that rotation of the nuts is prevented. As the disk 14 is thin and made of very ductile material, it is easy to remove the tongues from the notches which they occupy whenever adjustment of the bearing is necessary. The nuts are identical in size and formation for each standard size of bearing, so that they are interchangeable with each other and with all nuts of the same size in stock, for which reason it is easy to make substitution for lost or broken nuts. The rings 2 3 are provided with peripheral grooves 18, into which the end of a pryingtool may be inserted for loosening and removing a ring from the sleeve. A suitable form and the manner of use of such a tool are in dicated in dotted lines in Fig. '1.

After the parts above described are assembled the bearing becomes aunit, which can be theminimu'm of expense.

quickly and conveniently applied as. a whole and can be made to fit accurately upon a shaft by simply reaming or boring out the interior of the sleeve 1 to the required extent, without necessitating disturbance of the parts or alteration ofthe adjustment of the bearin There are also so few parts for which su 'stitution is ever necessary on account ofwear, breakage, loss,-&'c.-, and these parts are all so simple in construction and so easily made that their cost is comparatively trifling. Accordingly it is possible. to maintain the bearing inperfect running condition with that the flange or head 10 of the sleeve 1 has notches 21 in'its eriphery. These are pro vided' to'receive t e toe of a spanner-wrench which'may be inserted in one of such notches to retainthe sleeve against rotation when the nuts 6 7 are turned to adjust the bearingrings or to dismember or reassemble the hear-- ing when it is in position on a shaft.

I claim- 1. As an article of separate manufacture and sale, a ball-bearing comprising in combi- It will be notednation, a soft-metal sleeve having a shoulder on one end, threaded adjacent its other end and having a smooth intermediate portion, hardened-steelring's fitting upon the smooth portion of the sleeve and beveled on their adjacent sides to form between them a ballgroove, one of said rings abutting against said shoulder, an annulus of hardened steel having an internal groove surrounding the beveled portions of the rings, a series of balls between the annulus and rings, an adjustingnut screwed on the threaded end of the sleeve for preventing separation of the rings, and coacting means on the sleeve and rings for preventing rotation, while permitting axial sliding, of the latter on'the former.

2. A ball-bearing comprising a sleeve having an annular shoulder, a ring mounted on the sleeve abutting against said shoulder, a second ring mounted on the sleeve beside the first ring, said rings being formed with adjacent inclined sides makin aball-groove between them, an annulus having an internal groove surrounding the groove between the rin s, a series of antifriction-balls retained in sai grooves between the rings and annulus, an adjusting-nut threaded on the sleeve abuttin against the second ring, a lock-nut, and a isk between said nuts having flexible tongues adapted to be bent over into engagement with depressions-in the peripheries of the nuts.

3. A ball-bearing 'comprisin a sleeve, a pair of rings each beveled on t e side adjacent the other to form between them a ballgroove, each ring having a longitudinal groove in its bore,projections on the sleeve extending into the grooves of the rings whereby the latter 'are enabled to slide axially on the sleeve but are restrained from rotating thereon, an annulus havingian-int-ernal ballgroove surrounding the beveled sides of the riiigs, a series of balls contained between the rings and annulus, and means on the sleeve preventing separation of the rings.

In testimony whereof- I' have afiixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH SHARPLES, JESSE 0. Column. 

